On 07/08/2026 13:35, Daniel James wrote:  
  > On 07/08/2026 11:38, The Natural Philosopher wrote:  
  >> "Unobtainium is a humorous engineering and fictional term for a  
  >> hypothetical material that has the ideal, perfect properties for a  
  >> specific application, but is impossible to get or does not actually  
  >> exist. It combines the word "unattainable" with the chemical suffix "-ium  
  >  
  > Stating the obvious, here, but that should say "unobtainable" not  
  > "unattainable" ... I've never heard of "Unattainium", but it sounds like  
  > it should be a hypothetical element that exists but can't be extracted  
  > ... a bit like potassium was before Humphrey Davy and electrolysis.  
  >  
  > I might also mention "Handwavium", which means, you know ...  
  >  
    
  that is new to me.,..  
    
  > ... and "Chinesium" which so many cheap imported goods are made from.  
  >  
  ...That isn't!  
    
  A late friend had a similar word for pot metal. [Zinc alloy casting].  
  Can't remember what it was.  
    
  --  
  ?it should be clear by now to everyone that activist environmentalism  
  (or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans,  
  about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and  
  the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a  
  'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,'  
  a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for  
  rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet  
  things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that  
  you live neither in Joseph Stalin?s Communist era, nor in the Orwellian  
  utopia of 1984.?  
    
  Vaclav Klaus  
    
    
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